Chapter 65

I'm afraid only a fool would refuse, right?

But Su Yu, no matter how you look at it, is no fool.

So the monarch was deeply puzzled, thoroughly bewildered, completely unable to understand.

"That bow is very important to me," Su Yu explained.

Important?

A relatively low-grade epic-tier bow —

no matter how important, could it compare to a legendary cultivation art with limitless potential?

"You, seriously..."

Gu Gu Linger didn't even know what to say anymore.

She often gave Su Yu gifts, and had grown used to being refused by him.

Now, with Su Yu refusing a legendary cultivation art,

though the behavior was baffling, deep down it didn't feel all that strange to her.

So he really does refuse me often... it's not that he dislikes me.

Gu Gu Linger thought, her cheeks faintly flushing.

Tch, tch, tch — it's just the opposite of dislike, not that kind of like.

Perhaps it was Su Yu's current elegant attire paired with his handsome appearance

that stirred a different kind of thought in Gu Gu Linger's heart.

She swiftly shook the thought from her mind and calmed herself down.

"Su Yu... ah."

The Blue Star monarch wanted to say something,

but the matter was already done and could not be undone.

A proud and lofty young man probably detests nothing more than being lectured by others.

Even if he accepted it to your face, who knows how much he'd resent it behind your back.

Su Yu is Blue Star's hope,

and the monarch did not want Su Yu to grow to dislike Blue Star.

Unfortunately, Su Yu had hardly any family,

and he himself, the exalted monarch of Blue Star,

wanting to express goodwill toward Su Yu, couldn't even find a good way to do so.

Because of that, he could only look toward Gu Gu Linger.

They were both young, and his own precious daughter was quite pleasing to the eye — she was the best person to communicate with Su Yu.

No one blamed Su Yu; no matter how baffled they were,

anyone who wanted to lecture Su Yu would think twice about his territory's legendary-tier hero.

"The simulation battle begins tomorrow."

"Su Yu, let me explain how the 'Simulation Battle Network' works."

Gu Gu Linger sat down beside Su Yu, changing the subject as she spoke softly.

"Alright."

A beautiful girl's deliberate closeness, her pleasant voice —

it always lifts the spirit and gladdens the heart.

People all appreciate beauty and possess a love for beautiful things.

Su Yu was no exception; he did not resist Gu Gu Linger drawing closer.

Having spent more time around Gu Gu Linger, he found the princess was not as hard to get along with as he had imagined.

Apart from getting inexplicably angry at times, everything else about her was quite fine.

It seemed that status and position truly mattered a great deal.

In Su Yu's view, it was precisely because his own status had risen

that this princess displayed none of her princess-syndrome in front of him.

The long, drawn-out opening ceremony performances had gone on too long and become tedious.

People gradually began browsing the forums.

"No way, 'Never Fallen' has appeared!"

"A simulation battle against a territory that's developed for thirty years — and he won?!"

"Is he really that freakish? Let me take a look..."

The crowd stirred with a hubbub of noise.

They were all new-generation lords, and naturally cared about the status of other 11520th-generation lords.

The lord who had ranked first in the monster wave settlement

had always been mysterious, which made many people curious.

The buzz of heated discussion around her made Bai Bai Xiaowei pause for a moment.

She opened her lord terminal and looked at the trending posts in the forum.

She gave Su Yu an odd look.

So the great Su Yu had been late because he'd jumped into a TW simulation battle and played a round?

Bai Bai Xiaowei really wanted to laugh.

Everyone's chatter only made her want to laugh even more.

But she didn't dare laugh — she was afraid of leaking even a shred of information about Su Yu's territory.

So she could only forcibly suppress her amusement, imitating Iloti's icy demeanor.

5.0

She had always maintained a lofty and aloof image in the eyes of the Blue Star Alliance crowd.

"Competing against someone like that on the same stage? What a joke — may as well not even play!"

"You're flattering yourself. You think you're even qualified to face him in battle?"

"Get through the all-human selection tournament first."

"Heh, just making it into the top 10,000 of the rankings would bring glory to your ancestors, and you're already thinking about fighting 'The Never-Fallen Fortress'?"

"I-I'm just saying, he's from the same cohort as us... What if, y'know, we do run into him?"

"If anyone's going to get that matchup, it's Su Yu, who actually has a legendary hero."

"In our Blue Star Alliance, the one with the best shot at competing in the Ten Thousand Clans ranking battles has to be Su Yu."

"True."

The murmur of hushed conversations continued unabated.

The Blue Star Sovereign and the Moon Star Queen, however, paid little mind to this news.

They knew just how impossibly distant figures of that caliber were from humanity, from Blue Star.

The youngsters still fantasized about clashing with them, but that was nothing more than wishful thinking.

The opening ceremony ended.

It was only then that Su Yu learned

across the entire Myriad Realms, among the thirteen human universes,

there were only twenty-three new-era lords who possessed legendary heroes.

He immediately understood just how much weight the word "legendary" truly carried.

Among all legendary-grade units, heroes were the most important of all.

Combining the two, they were rarer than phoenix feathers and unicorn horns across the whole of humanity.

As for the even higher epic grade,

no one dared to imagine it.

Through so many generations of lords in the Myriad Realms battlefield, there had never been a single epic-grade hero to this day.

Some heroes' halls had already reached their grade cap,

and all six hero slots had been fully recruited.